A solicitor had to download Google Translate after a woman accused of operating a dirty takeaway was left without a translator in court.

Mandarin-speaking Xiu Ping Yang is accused of multiple food hygiene breaches at the Golden Wok, in Eston High Street , which was ordered to close after inspectors found “serious risks to public health”.

At the time the council said the reasons for the closure were due to “very poor standards of cleanliness and poor maintenance to the structure and equipment within the premises, as well as food being at risk of contamination due to inadequate disinfection procedures and poor standards of personal hygiene.”

The authority said new management reopened it last September as New China Garden.